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50 metres, or 50-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field. It is a relatively uncommon non-championship event for indoor track and field, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor athletics competitions it is used in the Special Olympics and a rare distance, at least for senior athletes.
Men's records. Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympics records, two individually and one with the Jamaican 4×100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024.
Indoor tracks longer than 200 meters are considered "oversized" and times are not accepted for record purposes. Indoor sprint races (50 to 60 meters) are held on level straight-aways. American athletes are successful on an international stage with many American records being at the same time world records .
Of the 35 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold fifteen records, Australia five, France four, China, Canada and South Africa two each, and one each to Ireland, Great Britain, Russian Olympic Committee, Hungary, and Sweden. Nineteen of the current Olympic records were set at the 2024 Summer Olympics, seven in 2020, five in 2016 ...
Paul Skrbina, Nashville Tennessean. August 4, 2024 at 12:50 PM. Two silvers and a gold already to her name, Gretchen Walsh took her mark, got set and went Sunday in the 50-meter freestyle final at ...
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is an American retired sprinter who became Olympic Champion four times, and World Champion eight times in the span of his career. [ 2] He held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m, as well as the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also once held the world's best time in the 300 m.
Pan Zhanle of China broke his own world record on the way to winning the men’s 100-meter freestyle Wednesday night, finishing in 46.40 seconds for his country's first swimming gold medal of the ...